1001 Albums Summary

Very fun and weird album. Can't quite in good conscience give it a 5/5, but a very enjoyable listen. Great production, fun funky percussion and guitar, weird lyrics with equally weird vocals.

I like it. 3/5 feels a little mean, but it definitely isn't quite 4/5 material. As a massive Beatles fan, it's fun hearing their influences. You can totally tell that the Beatles, and John in particular, were massively influenced by Buddy Holly & The Crickets, down to the name. The best songs on this album, imo, were better than some of the worst early Beatles songs, but it's still pretty clear that the Beatles were way better. This was a good, fun album, but nothing that will blow your mind, especially given that it came out nearly 70 years ago.

I'm not a huge metal fan, but I've liked the few Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne hits I've heard on the radio and such, but dreaded a bit listening to a full album of that. However, that is not what I got. I really enjoyed Supernaut and Under the Sun, but found the rest of the album was quite underwhelming. I really didn't like Changes (why on earth did Black Sabbath write a mopey piano ballad?). FX was a waste of 98 seconds. I hated the lyrics to Snowblind. Not because of the overt drug references, just because the lines sounded so cheesy and forced (e.g. "winds of ice that soon will spread" is an awful line). Laguna Suprise was pretty, but that's about it; a nothingburger of a song. The rest of the songs were messy and forgettable, leaving my head almost immediately after listening. I will say, though, that the solos were consistently pretty great. The instrumental breaks were the best parts of the songs imo. Overall I just found the album really messy and inconsistent. The song structures were a mess, winding from section to section without any rhyme or reason making each song feel like a couple decent but very underdeveloped songs haphazardly strung together. 2/5 feels a little harsh, since there's absolutely some good stuff here, it just feels poorly put together and buried beneath filler and poor structure.

I don't know much about hip hop, but that was incredible. The lyrics are dense, powerful, and masterfully delivered. Cold Lampin' with Flavor was the weakest track, and was still pretty fun, if nowhere near as good as the rest of the album.